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Old 6th Apr 2022, 14:42
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Originally Posted by DingerX
"didn't react to commands" is a rather loose translation. I heard: "Problème de commande.... L'avion s'est auto-fait n'importe-quoi."
So, control problem. The plane went and did by itself n'importe-quoi.
n'importe-quoi is not always easy to translate into English. Literally it means "it does not matter what". In many cases, it can be rendered by bull****.

Here, it means that it decided to do something that had no apparent meaning and was not helpful, like, for example, turning off the glidepath and diving.
So in essence a: "What´s it doing now? Have you seen this before?" moment.
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